intonate
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Solomon said in a singsong, the way people intonate when they are not quite convinced of what they are saying.
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2022
They have this way they intonate their words.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 17, 2010
"Ole Billie Bawlie" found as Number 4 was a little song which was used to deride men who had little ability musically to intonate "calls" and "sponses."
From Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study by Thomas Washington Talley
I could sing a French drinking song, taught me by the sub-prior Frere Jacques, and intonate a "Gloria in Excelsis" with a true nasal twang.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 488, May 7, 1831 by Various
Why did he not take up his last words, "Live in peace," and intonate the blessing?
From An Obscure Apostle A Dramatic Story by C. S. de Soissons
The most successful sequences are the ones that find new ways of illustrating the meaning of a poem besides lingering on the face of the performer uttering purposefully syncopated and painstakingly intonated lines.
From New York Times ● Jul. 8, 2021
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., even intonated that she’d be willing to send the House Democrats’ bill to a House/Senate conference committee.
From Fox News ● Jun. 28, 2020
Gate of Hell, its title to the contrary, admitted the Western moviegoer to a pearl-tinted paradise, a vision intonated by a highly sensitive Japanese color sense.
From Time Magazine Archive
Another kind of water—also very matutinal in its delivery,—the "Aqua vita," is intonated by the Aquavitario, in a sharp kestrel key,—hear him!
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. by Various
Those who didn't faint contributed variously intonated screams to the general unrest.
From "And That's How It Was, Officer" by Ralph Sholto
Here also stood the choir of young men or grown-up children, who united their voices or answered to the intonating singer.
From An Obscure Apostle A Dramatic Story by C. S. de Soissons
It is difficult to express upon paper the difference of signification conveyed by the mode of intonating a sentence.
From The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews by Henry Lunettes
